I am a Professor in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. I have a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research (2009) under Duncan Foley’s supervision, and a Doctorate in Economia Politica at La Sapienza University of Rome (2009) where my advisor was Guido Cozzi, now at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
My research interests are mostly in macroeconomics. Over the last decade or so, I have been working on models of growth, distribution, technical change, and the public sector that build on insights by the Classical Political Economists such as Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, but feature contemporary efforts on microeconomic foundations. As such, most of my papers are meant to enter and inform the policy debate about the interaction between income distribution, employment, and technological progress, with particular emphasis on advanced capitalist economies such as the United States. I also wrote papers falling broadly within the post-Keynesian tradition, which address the role played by effective demand in shaping macroeconomic performance. Finally, my recent research has explored the dynamics of wealth distribution in the context of secular stagnation and the falling labor share, and the role of coordination failures in macroeconomic models.
I have extensive teaching experience in both graduate and undergraduate courses. I teach Principles of Macro, Intermediate Macro, and Macroeconomic Policy to undergrads at CSU. A big feature of these classes is the constant connection to current events and policy debates. I currently also teach graduate classes: Macroeconomic Analysis II, a core-PhD course focusing on theories and empirical work on (broadly) economic growth, income and wealth distribution, and unemployment; and a course I designed, called Heterodox Approaches to Economics, that is unique among the current Economics PhD course offerings. The class is an overview of non-standard micro and macro theories, with an analytical focus. I occasionally teach Microeconomic Analysis I, which covers consumer theory, producer theory, expected utility, general equilibrium, and elements of welfare economics.